Reply to "Everything is offensive: Here are Canada’s other politically incorrect place names"

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CCGS John G. Diefenbaker
Still under development, the next icebreaker to join the Coast Guard fleet will carry the name of the only Canadian prime minister with a four-syllable last name. John Diefenbaker still has a relatively solid record on civil rights, but he didn’t care for gay people. Under his watch, the RCMP orchestrated a purge of homosexuals from the civil service, and Diefenbaker was an open opponent of Canada’s 1969 decriminalization of homosexuality. “Some say there is no God, that each man should be able to live his own life as he wills as long as he does so in private,” Diefenbaker said at the time. “I do not find any support for that philosophy in the scriptures.”

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